Date: February 28, 2021
Time: 1:30pm
Early registration available on the Facebook Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/171599797673696/
Where has 2021 brought your classroom? Have you continued online, gone back to F2F? Mix of both? Have you been F2F all along? What has been your approach to speaking activities online or in the classroom with COVID protocols in place? Any life-saving hacks, tips, and tricks you have to share for the new school year? Teachers of all levels and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate and present for Iwate-Aomori JALT’s upcoming roundtable discussion. We want to hear from university teachers, secondary and primary JTEs, and ALTs!
For this event, we hope to have two designated roundtable discussions about how speaking activities are managed in different teaching contexts so as to ensure as many people benefit and take away from this event as much as possible, just in time for the new school year.
Of course any participant can chime in throughout these discussions, but if you have something specific you’d like to share that’s been working well in your classroom, please sign-up for your context category below! If you teach and can contribute to multiple contexts, you can sign up for all of them, or just the one you prefer.
Roundtable Discussion
13:40-15:00 Primary, Secondary, & University F2F
| Name | Main topic/ tools used |
| Jason Hill | Risk management in the classroom. My experience with dealing with Covid-19 fears when online isn’t an option (ES) |
| John Hozack | Reading discussions, getting students to delve deeper into stories/ Google CR + F2F (JHS kids) |
| Evan Garcia | Amending speaking activities: How to ensure communicative language practice F2F during Covid-19 (JHS) |
| Parvathy Ramachandran | Strategies for communicating / speaking in the F2F classroom (SHS & Uni) |
| Erin Noxon | Instructional design for a blended learning communicative English class with shared devices and the need to have discussion based classes, all before and after lockdown (SHS) |
15:10-16:20 University Online/ Hybrid
| Name | Main topic/ tools used |
| Andrew Caldwell | Collaborative Activities using Moodle and Zoom |
| Ivan Lombardi | Communication and Public speaking with Google Classroom and Google Meet |
| Revathi Viswanathan | Digital tools for Speaking Practice |
| Jason Pipe | Encouraging Critical Thinking in Academic Writing |
| Barry Grossman | A ‘New-Normal’ Curriculum for Speaking and More: Anime-based Classwork and AI Video Platform Homework |